Summary
During their characters' quieter moments together, [Dennis Quaid] and [Rene Russo] finesse some rumpled sensuality to suggest that codgers pushing 50 can canoodle, too. But sloppy slapstick sequences ultimately take a toll on poor Quaid, who has to maintain a Fred MacMurray-esque dignity even as his seaman must endure getting splotched with paint, French-kissed by a potbellied pig and being perched on the wrong end of a careening fork lift, as bohemian hottie Russo benignly frets on the sidelines. Yours, Mine and Ours' best moments come from diminutive Linda Hunt as the housekeeper, who prowls about the premises as a sawed-off George Burns delivering sarcastic one-liners like "Connecticut is the birthplace of Lyme disease." Regarding Hunt's scene-stealing, good things come in small packages--although moviegoing parents might want to take that wisdom literally and stock up on some Trojans afterward.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
This rambunctious remake overhauls so much from the 1968 family comedy hit with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, you have to wonder why the new moviemakers bothered to keep the old titl...
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